Indian station “Chandrayan-3” successfully landed on the moon
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The Indian station “Chandrayan-3” on Wednesday afternoon (after 18:00 Indian time) successfully landed on the moon. The footage was broadcast by Bharat TV.
Thus, India became the fourth country (after the USSR, the USA and China) to land a device on the moon, and the first country to do so on the south pole of the moon.
The Chandrayan-3 lander is equipped with a RAMBHA-LP Langmuir probe for plasma research, a ChaSTE surface thermophysical instrument, an ILSA three-component seismograph and other instruments. The spacecraft was launched on July 14, and on August 5 it entered the Moon’s orbit. The project cost was about $90 million.
Earlier, the Russian apparatus “Luna-25”, which was also supposed to land at the south pole, crashed. The head of Roskosmos, Yuri Borisov, said that the accident at the Luna-25 station was due to the engine running for 127 seconds instead of 84.
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